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WB buys rights to new dystopia series, FKA USA, that imagines a fallen United States after climate change and “the final president.” –Den of Geek Reed King’s amazingly audacious novel is something of a cross between L. Frank Baum’s The …Read more

In the near future, the ravages of a warming planet have worsened, driving a new era of climate refugees. Rohini Haakonsen, a young Indian-American woman, attends a UN conference on the problem when humanoid aliens materialize. Known as the Elders, …Read more

Back to the Garden is in its 2nd edition (Dragonfly Publishing, 2018), launching the new Wild Mountain series. Clara Hume’s speculative ecofiction, Back to the Garden, is told from the perspective of a group of “tipping point” survivors–a generation of …Read more

Solarpunk is a type of optimistic science fiction that imagines a future founded on renewable energies. The seventeen stories in this volume are not dull utopias—they grapple with real issues such as the future and ethics of our food sources, …Read more

Stealing Air is the second in the Rising Waters Series of near future short stories. Similar to Black Mirror or Close Encounters before it, this episodic anthology follows everyday characters into a world challenged by accelerating technology and inevitable climate …Read more

An ancient route links Britain’s deep past and far future in an ecologically aware tale spanning thousands of years –The Guardian Spanning centuries, and combining elements of historical and speculative fiction with the narrative drive of pure thriller, this is …Read more

I will update this once the cover has been released, and the book information has synced, on Goodreads. I’m really looking forward to this novel! Note that no date has been released yet. Some teasers: Earlier today, Publisher’s Lunch announced …Read more

Anna Kavan’s novel “Ice,” a fantasia about predatory male sexual behavior that takes place during an apocalyptic climate catastrophe, was first published fifty years ago. (An anniversary edition has just been released by Penguin Classics.) It was the last novel …Read more

As Peter Gingold, Director, Tipping Point, says: “This most grandiose and abstract subject is experienced at a very personal level, making its demands on the way we live with partners – or with friends, neighbours and communities. This must be …Read more

Thanks to the author for bringing this book to our attention. First it’s about climate change and the hostility Canada has shown toward those wishing to do something about it. It’s also about the role of artists at a time …Read more

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The so-called realist novel, because of its debt to the Enlightenment, has shied away from engaging with Nature and issues involving large collectives, and focused instead on what John Updike calls an “individual moral adventure”. This focus, Amitav Ghosh points out in his seminal work on climate change – The Great Derangement – has ghettoised all other kinds of writing, placing them in genre fiction. -Rajat Chaudhuri